Staff Blog
James van Riemsdyk continues to rack up hardware
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| van Riemsdyk (left, obviously) and Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr |
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James van Riemsdyk, the silver lining on the cloud of that disasterous Flyers season a couple years back, has impressed at every stage (so much to the point that the pro club has begun to openly grumble that he’s not taking his game pro … anyone got a guess about why he’ll never hear complaints about going pro while college basketball is ‘ruined’ by such behavior? That’s besides the point though …) and the world junior hockey championships were no different.
Despite the fact that team USA didn’t so medal, JVR was named USA Today’s Olympic Player of the Week.
While it’s a bit bittersweet to name someone the Olympic Athlete of the Week when his team didn’t win a medal or she didn’t climb up the podium, it’s hard to overlook the credentials of USA hockey player James vanRiemsdyk.
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While the American squad was knocked off in the quarterfinals by upstart Slovakia, VanRiemsdyk helped the team to a fifth-place finish by scoring the game-winning overtime goal against the Czech Republic on Sunday. It was his sixth goal of the tournament, which tied him for third in that category.
Congratulations to the young forward.
